One of the most underappreciated aspects of smartphones is the benefit of having a tool for both business and entertainment. In the early years, a dual enterprise/personal device was seen as a liability. Many companies even locked down business devices to prevent them from being used as entertainment devices. Today, however, companies have been forced by sheer momentum to integrate popular business/personal devices based on iOS and Android into their infrastructure. More...

Just last week, Gartner hosted a webinar on its Hype Cycle 2010, revealing the emerging technologies that are the likeliest to transform business.  While there are dozens of technologies reviewed, and even more listed, a few rose to the top.  Most interesting is that these emerging technologies all have to do with how companies collect, analyze, use, disperse, and leverage data for a competitive advantage.  Even more, enterprises will most likely be leveraging these technologies in the cloud for application delivery, and data storage and organization. More...